The Bird Dog Inspection is our fast property screening for real estate investors and homebuyers. An inspector walks the property, captures the photos and a narrated video, and you get a magazine-style brief: roof, foundation, structure, occupancy and a planning-level repair cost by trade. Under $170, built to be read in minutes.
$150 on-site media capture + $19.99 for the written brief. Already have a Bird Dog report? Look it up here.
An inspector visits the property, captures photos and talks through what they see on video: roof, foundation, structure, electrical, pests, safety and occupancy. That is the $150.
The narration and notes become one seamless, magazine-style read for $19.99: a headline, occupancy, the story of the property, each finding, and a cost range by trade for materials and labor.
Pursue it, negotiate it, or pass. Keep the full inspection for the properties that survive the first cut, and spend nothing more on the ones that do not.
A Bird Dog Inspection is a screening tool. It is very good at telling you quickly whether a property is worth your attention, and we would rather be clear about its limits than oversell it.
Most houses you look at are not the one. Bird Dog separates “worth pursuing” from “pass” quickly and cheaply.
You are building a pipeline, and most properties will not fit your buy box.
You are choosing between homes, and the price of getting it wrong is high.
$150 on-site media capture plus $19.99 for the written brief.
The deeper inspection, with sewer scope and thermal imaging included as standard. Keep it for the properties that survive the first cut.
Versus $3,500 to $7,500 to fully inspect all ten. Then fully inspect only the ones you still want.
Same editorial look as our full inspection editions, shorter and sharper: the headline, the read on the property, the findings priced, where the money goes by trade, and a bottom line. Shown below is a sample brief on a sample property with sample numbers.
Sample brief. The property, address and figures are placeholders for illustration.
A Bird Dog Inspection is a fast property screening. An inspector visits the property, captures photos and a narrated video walkthrough, and the recording is turned into a magazine-style brief that covers the roof, foundation, structural condition, electrical, pests, safety and health items, occupancy and general condition, with planning-level repair costs. It is built to answer one question quickly: is this property worth pursuing?
No. It is a screening, not a certified or licensed home inspection, and it does not follow a formal inspection standard. It tells you what the inspector saw and narrated on the visit so you can decide whether to move forward. A full home inspection is still what you want before you remove an inspection contingency or close.
$150 for the on-site media capture plus $19.99 to convert it into the written report, $169.99 in total. A full Pre Closing Inspection is $350 to $750 depending on the property.
Real estate investors screening many deals against a buy box, wholesalers and out-of-area owners who need eyes on a property, and homebuyers who are choosing between finalists or want a pre-offer read on the roof and foundation before they spend on a full inspection.
Yes, as a pre-offer screen. It can help you compare homes and price big-ticket items like a roof or foundation into your offer. It does not replace the full inspection you schedule during your inspection contingency.
No. The sewer scope is not part of a Bird Dog Inspection. Sewer scope and thermal imaging come standard on our full home inspection.
No. They are planning-level estimates of material and labor by trade at current local market rates, meant to help you size a deal. Get contractor quotes before you commit money.
Southeast Michigan, including Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Genesee, Ingham, Monroe and Livingston counties.
$150 for the on-site media capture, $19.99 to turn it into your brief. Booked straight into real availability, no back and forth. Then bring the full inspection to the ones that earn it.
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